Internship / Master Thesis Student (m/f/d) AI for Network Security and Orchestration
Abb
·Aug 6, 2026
- Location
- Mannheim, Germany
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Internship
- Department
- IT
- Seniority
- Internship
- Closing date
- 3 weeks ago
- Source
- Workday
Description
At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.
This position reports to:
R&D Team Lead - Secure Connected Systems__
You want to support industrial research projects and teams given your interest in using AI, and specifically Generative AI for network security and industrial network orchestration? Then join ABB, a global key player in industrial automation and smart electrification, as an intern or Master thesis student. Apply your skills and grow personally in a challenging and fascinating environment.
ABB is a technology leader driving the digital transformation of industries toward autonomous industrial plants and buildings. Industrial systems comprise automation systems, networks and devices, software tools and platforms, and control solutions.
In the ABB Research Center Germany, we focus on innovating digital industries and smart and sustainable electrification systems. In our team, we contribute to these goals with connectivity, system integration, and applied security competencies. Become a member of our team and be part of the projects and research teams and their endeavor of demonstrating great results by leveraging AI models that can interact with the network to have better understanding the status of the industrial networks and orchestrate the network to improve network performance and security.
Key responsibilities
The work model for the role is: #LI-Hybrid
You will be mainly accountable for:
- In close collaboration with our research team, you will engage in investigating, prototyping and developing demonstrators, e.g., future industrial networks, Industry 4.0 applications, role of AI in industrial networking or innovative solutions protecting our customers against various network security attacks.
- More specifically, you will implement AI methods to interact with the network and understand the situations, events, and failures in an industrial network and then reconfigure the network to provide better performance and security. You will work on the AI solution to process network data, detect anomalies, and thereby reconfigure the network.
Qualifications for the role
- We expect you to bring creativity, initiative, and result orientation to support driving our innovations toward new products and services.
- You have a study background in communication systems, secure connected systems, machine learning, computer science, or similar background.
- You bring experience with networking and network security, especially ethernet-based networking, in addition to your background in ML solutions for network security purposes. Experience in LLMs, Generative AI in addition to having a good understanding about industrial networks can be considered as big advantages.
- You are highly motivated, team-minded, and able to work independently.
- Fluent English in verbal and written form is required.
Interested in joining our team? We are looking forward to receiving your complete application (CV, Cover letter, Transcript of records) through our online tool. In the case of equal suitability, people with severe disabilities and their equals are given preference.
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